Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

That's pretty much what every scene is about, getting people to see your point of view. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.

I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.

Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.

In my experience with women that I've dated and my wife now, is you have to know what they care about. And even if you aren't a huge fan of it, you still have to have interest in it and it has to be genuine because women do it for men all the time.

The best mother is the mother who adapts, and the best children are the children who adapt as well.

You kind of restructure your whole personality to be in a healthy relationship.

According as the man is, so must you humour him.

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

Never too late to change your relationship with somebody in your life.

To get others to do what you want them to do, you must see things through their eyes.

As it happens in relationships that are open and frank and based on mutual respect, you say things as you think them, and this doesn't mean that you don't work together in a constructive way.

It's an honest place to be if you don't understand someone else's experience, but there's no way for the other to understand if a conversation or an explanation isn't made.

If a relationship is going to work, it will require compromise and, even then, it is not always going to end the way you want it to.

The more people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.

The best way to break down that fear is to spend time with somebody, put yourself in somebody else's shoes, understand what the other person is going through.

With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.

There is so much to be learned from listening to people's hopes, frustrations, and points of view

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

All relationships are a learning experience, even ones you continue to be in. If you don't see them as that, then that's a problem.

Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.

Don't beg, don't threaten and don't assume you're always right.